**Ask a monkey a physics question thread**

[MadMojoMonkey]

Do you struggle with taking this literally when they're not meant that way?

edit - I don't mean that as an insult or anything it's a serious question. A lot of my posts you seem to take too literally. Might be a UK thing.

I sometimes do. I sometimes think it's funny to highlight how silly a turn of phrase is... especially old ones like "let the cat out of the bag" whose literal meanings are completely lost to anachronism.

That was just a joke, though.

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Thinking about emergency preparedness is a good process to go through in moderation, IMO.

I don't think the zombie apocalypse is upon us, or even the Germans, any time soon, though.

[chemist]

... especially old ones like "let the cat out of the bag" whose literal meanings are completely lost to anachronism.

Originally a phrase people frequently had to say to Erwin Schrödinger.

It'd take a lot of years of political pressure to change that we're never going to war with either GB or Israel.
We can probably include Canada in that.

Don't trust those americans they have been planning war with GB since 1920. See War Plan Red, and Canada too, war plan crimson.